March 21, 2014: 10 years ago, March 21 2014, four SFPD officers murdered 28-year-old Alex [...]
10 years ago, March 21 2014, four SFPD officers murdered 28-year-old Alex Nieto, a lifelong resident of Bernal Heights, on Bernal Hill. In 2016, all four officers were acquitted. His death and the acquittal sparked a wave of struggles against police brutality throughout the bay
March 21, 2003: 21 years ago, March 20 2003, tens of thousands of people took to the [...]
21 years ago, March 20 2003, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest America’s invasion of Iraq, which had begun that day. Police made around 1500 arrests as demonstrators disrupted traffic across the city in dozens of coordinated actions
March 20, 1975: 49 years ago, March 20 1975, the New World Liberation Front bombed [...]
49 years ago, March 20 1975, the New World Liberation Front bombed PG&E transmission towers in Oakland and San Mateo. They demanded that PG&E (a “parasite corporation… void of any human compassion” that “feeds off the misery of the poor”) cut utility rates for the poor in half
March 18, 1919: 105 years ago, March 18 1919, a bomb exploded at the Oakland home of [...]
105 years ago, March 18 1919, a bomb exploded at the Oakland home of banker George Greenwood, killing his wife. Within days, Russian-born IWW member Pavel Melnikov was arrested for the murder on scant evidence. He was deported without trial in December 1919 as a “dangerous alien” Melnikov, who had …
March 16, 1970: 54 years ago, March 16 1970, the Bay Area chapter of Movement for a [...]
54 years ago, March 16 1970, the Bay Area chapter of Movement for a Democratic Military was formed. Started out of the People’s Office at 1921 Grove St, Berkeley (the HQ of several radical anticapitalist groups) MDM was an attempt to organize GIs in order to stop the Vietnam War …